Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans in woman and cat

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1767-1769

  Berger, Anja ^a,b   Huber, Ingrid ^b   Merbecks, Sophie Susann ^c   Ehrhard, Ingrid ^c   Konrad, Regina ^a,b   Hörmansdorfer, Stefan ^b   Hogardt, Michael ^b   Sing, Andreas ^a,b  

^a National Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Germany)

^c Public Health Laboratory of Saxony   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN G PLUS STREPTOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CAT; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTION; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NOSE SMEAR; PATIENT CARE; RIBOTYPING; RPOB GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SORE THROAT; THROAT CULTURE; TOX GENE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZOONOSIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; ZOONOSES;

EID: 80052161729     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1709.110391     Document Type: Letter

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